#0480 · 🦊 mammals

Spectacled Bear

🇳🇱 Brilbeer ·Tremarctos ornatus

VUvulnerable 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © *snowwhite* · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © osoandino · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Jose Granizo · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Tambako The Jaguar · CC BY-ND 4.0
5. © Michael Andersen · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
6. © Valerie · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. © ucumari photography · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
8. © isaontaneda · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © osoandino · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © nimaroca · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The spectacled bear ( Tremarctos ornatus ), also known as the Andean bear or Andean short-faced bear and locally as jukumari (Aymara), ukumari (Quechua) or ukuku , is the last remaining short-faced bear (subfamily Tremarctinae). Its closest relatives are the extinct Florida spectacled bear, and the giant short-faced bears of the Middle Pleistocene to Late Pleistocene age. Spectacled bears are the only surviving species of bear native to South America, and the only surviving member of the subfamily Tremarctinae....

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,967iNaturalist observations
threat VUvulnerable

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
1,967 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Frédéric Cuvier in 1825 (201 years ago).
Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.